Training Calendar

Color Vowel FAST© is an accelerated introduction to the Color Vowel® Approach and our Blue Canoe® pronunciation app. It consists of four 90-minute video modules and companion quizzes that you complete at your own pace. Upon completion, you will receive a FAST certificate of completion reflecting 6 hours of professional development. FAST training partially fulfills the requirements for Level 1 certification.

During this workshop for Level 1 Color Vowel Trained teachers, participants will learn to lead and create rhythmic chants as brain-based interventions to improve English learner pronunciation and boost speaking confidence. Through their participation in four live online sessions, workshop participants will:

• Practice pre-teaching, leading and closing a chant with clear gestures;
• Master three Color Vowel chants and their variations;
• Create two new chants using tried-and-true chant-writing ‘recipes’;
• Learn when and where chants are most effective in a lesson.

Phonological awareness is a person’s awareness of the sounds, rhythms, and intonations they use when speaking.

In this practice-based workshop, Dr. Robin Barr will lead participants through a series of discovery activities and mini-lectures aimed at increasing teachers’ phonological awareness for the purpose of English language teaching.

This Level 2 workshop is open to Level 1 certified teachers and is recommended to those who have completed at least one Level 2 Core workshop.

Teachers, this is for you! Whether you’re new to Color Vowel or already part of the tribe, our Friday gatherings are wonderfully interactive, inclusive, and informative. The topic changes each week, but the sense of community is a constant!

Share and enjoy Color Vowel successes and anecdotes in this collaborative session for Color Vowel enthusiasts and newcomers alike.

Join Karen Taylor, co-author of the Color Vowel Approach, for an overview of this innovative, brain-based method for teaching spoken English, pronunciation, vocabulary, and reading to English learners. Workshop discounts will be made available to you during this webinar.

Every fourth Friday, we gather to ask Dr. Barr our language-related questions. This session is open to all.

Dr. Robin Bar is Linguist in Residence at American University, Lead Instructor at the Washington Literacy Center, and Lead Phonologist at ELTS/Color Vowel.

Color Vowel COMPLETE combines live training with asynchronous learning to immerse you in the use the Color Vowel® Approach and our pronunciation app, Blue Canoe. During this 4-week course, you will learn how to use powerful, brain-based strategies to teach learner pronunciation, vocabulary development, and oral fluency. Color Vowel COMPLETE fulfills ALL of the requirements for Level 1 certification.

Color Vowel COMPLETE combines live training with asynchronous learning to immerse you in the use the Color Vowel® Approach and our pronunciation app, Blue Canoe. During this 4-week course, you will learn how to use powerful, brain-based strategies to teach learner pronunciation, vocabulary development, and oral fluency. Color Vowel COMPLETE fulfills ALL of the requirements for Level 1 certification.

In this 4-week online workshop facilitated by Shirley Thompson, co-author of The Color Vowel Chart, participants will learn about and exchange ideas related to:

• Identifying the strengths and limitations of an ESL/EFL textbook;
• Recognizing activity types that can easily be adapted for speaking practice;
• Using simple Color Vowel mark-ups to enhance textbook activities;
• Using more advanced mark-ups to scaffold students’ effective use of intonation, linking, reduction, and blending in their spoken English;
• Applying all of these strategies to a chapter or unit in a textbook of the participant’s choosing as part of a culminating project.

Color Vowel COMPLETE combines live training with asynchronous learning to immerse you in the use the Color Vowel® Approach and our pronunciation app, Blue Canoe. During this 4-week course, you will learn how to use powerful, brain-based strategies to teach learner pronunciation, vocabulary development, and oral fluency. Color Vowel COMPLETE fulfills ALL of the requirements for Level 1 certification.

Increase your phonological awareness and gain confidence in the use of this powerful brain-based instructional technique.

This course is for non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) who wish to increase their own confidence with English pronunciation.

In this 5-session practice-based course taught by a Color Vowel® Trained Teacher, participants will engage in a series of brain-based English pronunciation exercises that build awareness of the sounds and rhythms of English for the purpose of being more confident in their spoken English.

Learn how taking a sound-based approach to spelling empowers learners to notice patterns and engage in life-long language discovery.

Learn how to preview, lead, and close chants with learners using existing chants and modified chants.